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Flagstaff
Today 56°:
27° Week 1 Day 364 Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind
6 mph Gusts 7 mph Active Fire:
589 miles away Risk
of Fire: Moderate Nearest
lightning: 897 miles away Dec
Averages: Temps: 45°\18° Moisture: 5 Days |
Weekly Observations
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14-1/5/25 Christmas Bird Count Week Link Chanukah |
25-31 It's About Time Week Kwanzaa |
Daily Observations
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National Pepper Pot Day Still Need To Do Day Texas Admission Day (28th state) |
Tick Tock Day |
Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
Thoughts for the day
A nice winter day. I really enjoy a
beautiful deep blue sky.
I’m really enjoying this time between
Christmas and New Year’s. I’m usually with my brother and his wife along with
others in Mexico or Chicago. I’m getting lots of rearranging and then throwing
away junk. Getting ready for 2025. I have discovered way too much ‘I might need
this’ stuff I will never need.
Inventions…
Garrett Morgan - Traffic Signal
After witnessing a terrible accident
between a car and a horse carriage, Garrett Morgan created the three-position
traffic signal in 1923. His design added a warning position between stop and
go, giving drivers time to clear intersections – the same principle behind
today’s yellow light. Morgan sold his patent to General Electric for $40,000,
and his invention became the basis for modern traffic control systems. His
traffic signal made roads safer at a time when cars were becoming increasingly
common on American streets.
Random Thoughts…
While trying to publish
his first novel Ernest Hemingway was meeting
with an editor who wished to see more of his work. His wife packed all of his
work she could find in a suitcase and went to meet him. While on the train she
left the suitcase unattended, where it was lost and never seen again.
The protagonist in Wicked was
based on Margaret Hamilton’s approach to the character, as explained to
TV’s Mister Rogers.
Burl Ives – Real Name: Burl Ivanhoe
Before Elvis Presley
became famous, he had a troubling past of getting
bullied. Once in High School, three guys were going to cut his hair off. Then a
man, named Red West intervened in the scene and stopped them. He would become
Elvis’s bodyguard and friend and was with him from 1956 to 1975.
Quirky town names…
Accident, Maryland
The town’s unusual name dates to a land survey in the 1700s.
A settler described his purchase as “an accident of survey,” and the name
caught on, cementing its peculiar legacy.
Historic Events
Birthdays
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@80 –
Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017) @66
– Andrew Johnson, 17th President (d. 1875; stroke)
@59
– Charles Goodyear, American chemist, and engineer (d. 1860) |
…The End for today…
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